Although it's right there in the name, it's not entirely clear whether composer/leader Kyle Saulnier's Awakening Orchestra is in fact an orchestra, a big band...continue...
Recording information: Firehouse 12 Studios, New Haven, CT (11/10/2012-11/11/2012)....continue...

The works on pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst's Keeping Time span a broad swath of years, from Jing Jing Luo's 'Mosquito' (1991) to Stefania de Kenessey's...continue...
Recording information: Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA....continue...

Born of an international broadcast for Public Radio International, and inspired by a commissioned premiere on a familiar Christmas tune, Christmas Daybreak captures the honest...continue...
Recording information: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill (2011)....continue...

On Strange Paths, Justin DeHart dives head first into this challenging repertoire and performs the monumental compositions in a lucid and inspired fashion - with...continue...
Recording information: Warren Music Studio, La Jolla, CA....continue...

A lot has happened since the 2004 release of Billband's innova debut album, Blurred. Where that album was called "gritty and funky" by Gramophone, the...continue...
Recording information: Grand View State University, Allendale, MI; Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY; Sear Sound, New York, NY; Still Life Recording, North Adams, MA....continue...

Under the direction of founder and artistic director Robert Geary, the twenty professional singers that make up Volti lead the nation in the discovery, creation...continue...
Recording information: St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA (11/2009-05/2011)....continue...

"Eleven Short Stories" is a set of nearly a dozen atmospheric vignettes for prepared piano, paying homage to some of Erdem Helvacioglu's favorite film directors:...continue...
Recording information: Robert College Suna Kiraç Theater Hall, Istanbul, Turke....continue...

It is safe to say that grass does not grow under Lawrence Moss's feet. As a spry 83 year old with a distinguished teaching career...continue...
Recording information: University of Maryland, Dekelboum Hall....continue...

Expertly performed by the virtuoso duo runedako (Ruth Neville and Daniel Koppelman) the six works on this disc (for various permutations of one or two...continue...
Recording information: Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Center for the Arts, Universi (05/22/2010-05/24/2010)....continue...

Invited by the Vienna Musik-Galerie festival in Austria to put together a group consisting of some of his favorite musicians, Lukas Ligeti assembled a quintet...continue...
Recording information: Feedback Studio, Vienna, Austria (10/1999)....continue...

In 2008, Zeitgeist new music ensemble asked 30 Minnesota composers (one for each year of Zeitgeist's existence) to write 150-second long pieces (one second for...continue...
Recording information: Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis....continue...

'Serendipity: Music from the Heart of New York' is a 2-CD set of world premiere recordings by seven Society for New Music commissioned composers. Serendipity...continue...
Recording information: Setnor Auditorium, Crous College, Syracuse University (09/2008-06/2009)....continue...

Neither From Nor Towards..., the second full-CD of this promising Belgian trio, features exclusively compositions for saxophones, clarinets and piano which have been written for...continue...
Recording information: University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO (03/22/2008-03/23/2008)....continue...

In C Remixed is the latest project from the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, the corn-fed young group from western Michigan that brought...continue...
Recording information: River City Studios, Grand Rapids, MI....continue...

Works: Gwyneth Walker: Though Love Be a Day, songs for voice & piano; Mark Carlson: From the Song of Songs, for voice & piano; Robert Beaser: Landscape with Bells, for piano solo; C. Edward Hupton: Cancione...

TAPESTRY presents five composers from both American continents in works for chamber ensembles involving clarinet, with one notable and curious exception. Frankie J. Kelly, a professor at Southeastern ...continue...